Just as every English school child knows Rowena, Rebecca, Ivanhoe, and Sir Brian de Bois Guilbert, so every French reader knows the poor but beautiful gypsy Esmeralda with her little goat the alchemist-priest Claude Frollo, who desires her and Quasimodo, the "hunchback of Notre Dame," who loves her and tries to save her. Both are popular classics both have suspenseful and melodramatic plots both contain character sketches which, despite their lack of depth, have remained vivid and memorable for a century. Set in medieval Paris, it is one of those Romantic historical novels inspired by Sir Walter Scott, and on more than one score it bears comparison with Ivanhoe. Les Travailleurs de la Mer is read chiefly for its magnificent evocations of the sea, but Notre Dame de Paris is known the world over. Hugo wrote several novels, but the only three that have continued to be much read today are Les Misérables Notre Dame de Paris and Les Travailleurs de la Mer, the story of a young fisherman who fights the sea to salvage a wreck and win the girl he loves, but who gives her up when he learns she prefers another man. Part 5: Jean Valjean: Book III, Chapters 10-12, Book IV.Part 5: Jean Valjean: Book II-Book III, Chapters 1-9.Part 5: Jean Valjean: Book I, Chapters 11-24.Part 5: Jean Valjean: Book I, Chapters 1-10.Part 2: Cosette: Book IV-Book V, Chapters 1-5.
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